1st cake - made by a seer.3rd cake? The blue side looks like a profile from the now collapsed "Man of the Mountain"(NH) rock formation.There's no beach anywhere near that old site. Jen, you are hysterical.Mocking

I think the first one is supposed to be a moonlit beach at night, but then why have an umbrella at all? That one must come from the laminated 'clinical depression' page of the grocery store cake decoration binder.

Why, why, why didn't the cupcake people just use their globs of icing to decorate all of the cc with flower tops. They would have had just as much icing and a prettier presentation.Of course, they probably wouldn't have made the CW scene.

If the wreckerator for the first one hadn't been colour-blind, it would not have been a wreck. Maybe the only time that person ever saw a beach was during a terrible storm where the ocean was a grey froth and the sky was scary-dark? But I like your religious explanation better!

Maybe #2 is after the storm, when the palm tree had been permanently bent horizontal??? Otherwise, I'm flabbergasted that the person didn't know trees grew UP out of the ground! (how could someone miss that?!)

Were it not for the recognizable bakery label on the second cake, I would swear it was made at a bakery in a remote Tibetan village by someone who has never had the opportunity to see even a photograph of a beach. Apparently it was just a clueless American with a piping bag. (sighs)

omg - the ccc looks like "eco-poo" - something you might step in while walking along the beach in Costa Rica...yea, waaaayyyy too much of a poop theme going on here. When I see umbrellas (REAListic umbrellas) I think of refreshment, not poo.

For those who haven't left these fair shores...palm trees can, and do grow leaning out over beaches. Just think..coconuts float, wash ashore and grow.See example (and I can verify - I have been lucky enough to go there)http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/42-2885B

But still doesn't excuse the poop on the beach. I don't want to see a photo OR a cake of that.

Oh for pete's sake - whoever pete is. These are from one of those planets that have "different" suns, moons, atmospheres. How do you know it couldn't look like it "there"? And you call yourselves geeks, hmmmmm. And there you need the umbrellas for the really large flying critters. Norine

Arghhh what is with all the poo? Or are the wreckerators trying to tell us this is what to expect this summer? If so I will not be going to the beach I will hide out at home safe from the poo cakes waiting to grab some unsuspecting soul lol. But I must say that third cake.. my mind went way into the gutter to describe what that poop mess looked like.. now I need soap to scrub my brain.

Reminds me of the unfortunate cake that was served at a posh dinner party on 'Beverly Hills Chef' (or something like that)...one of the young chefs took it upon herself to add beach umbrellas to an (otherwise lovely) tiered vanilla bean cake. The hostess saw it and went ballistic and the chef got her feelings hurt ("It's whimsical," she pouted) but in the end they served the cake sliced with edible gold foil and raspberry sauce and no one knew about the wreck.

A tree-sized umbrella could shade at least 50 people. I guess the Scale Police couldn't respond in time to put a stop to that wreck because they were busy scarfing down doughnuts the size of truck tires.

The last one is a dreaded Poo Python (note the characteristic 'sprinkles' marking) lying in wait under a clothesline. Caution: Always wear Really Big Boots (from the maker of the Tree-Sized Umbrella) when Poo Pythons are about -- you do NOT want to be bitten by one of those.

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